Running out of money was currently the Burning Legion's biggest problem. If Xiao Ran had not suddenly wanted to establish some kind of research department, and if it had not been for the basic science development report Luo brought out, then under the current circumstances, they could have safely gotten through this mission's rest period. They could even have received plenty of Merit Points from the Shadow Blade Legion, and nothing would have gone wrong.
However, establishing a new research department required resources. The resources it consumed would not be too great—mostly staff salaries and filling it with existing equipment. After all, it was only a logic research department, and its workload would not be especially heavy or complicated.
But if they established the Basic Science Research Institute, the cost would be enormous. Basic science was extremely important to every world. In fact, even within the current legion and across all those territories, there were people tirelessly researching basic science.
But just as Luo had said, the Burning Legion had never placed much importance on basic science. The Burning Legion itself already possessed incredibly advanced and powerful technologies. Even though most of those technologies existed solely for military purposes—making MS units and warships stronger, increasing the power of their weapons, allowing a single shot to destroy a planet—they had merely developed along a linear path, with ever-greater destructive power and more functions.
That did not mean the Burning Legion's current level of basic science was low. On the contrary, after being built up from the technologies of so many different worlds, the Burning Legion's basic science had reached a very high level. But that level carried a strong air of appropriation—it had been scavenged from different worlds, then pieced together into the legion's technological foundation.
Yet many branches of basic